Facebook App for iOS Gets a Big Update

Facebook's app for iOS has received a big update that brings the ability to tag friends and places in posts, to share external links from a web view, a new design for Profile and Group walls, and more.

Facebook for iPhone makes it easy to stay connected and share information with friends. Use your iPhone to start a conversation with Facebook Chat, check your friends' latest photos and status updates, look up a phone number, or upload your own mobile photos to Facebook while on the go.

What's New In This Version:
Made it easier to share with who you want
● Added the ability to tag friends and places in posts
● Added the ability to share external links from a web view
● Added new design for Profile and Group Walls
● Improved the sharing tool to add privacy controls on posts and match your settings on the web site

Improvements and bug fixes: 
● Improved Notifications speed
● Fixed a number of Chat bugs
● Made it easier to select filters in News Feed
● Fixed a bug with the Notifications bar disappearing
● Fixed a number of Photos bugs
● Improved performance and stability overall

You can download Facebook from the App Store for free.

Facebook Messenger Soars to Top Free iPhone App

So far it seems Facebook’s Messenger app is a hit. After launching just Tuesday afternoon, it’s already the number-one free app in the iTunes App Store.

The iOS app has more than 600 customer reviews and with 900 ratings has 3.5 of five stars.

The app has the potential to chip away at the hold of cell carriers. It allows users to send messages and texts through the 750-million-member social network, and it updates in real time, so there’s no need to refresh to see if you’ve received new messages.

“This is replacing text messages in my dock!” one iOS reviewer wrote.

The negative reviews in both the App Store and the Android Market are mostly critical of Facebook now having two apps (though the company told Mashable it does plan to integrate the new message functionality into the main app) and of the fact that Messenger isn’t an instant message app.

Have you tried either the Android or iOS app yet? Could you see it replacing text messages?

You can check out images of the iOS and Android app below.

Source: www.mashable.com by Emily Banks

Facebook Fires Back at Google+ With New Gaming Features

Facebook has unveiled a slew of new features for Facebook games just hours after Google launched its gaming platform.

The first feature, the Game Ticker, transforms the right-hand Facebook Chat column into a newsfeed of friends’ game activity. The column displays what games your friends are playing as well as their achievements and high scores. It’s designed to be social, so clicking on a Game Ticker story takes you to that game so you can play with your friends. And just like Facebook News Feed, you can control which stories appear and don’t appear in the stream.

The world’s largest social network also introduced a new expanded-screen mode for games. Current players of social games will appreciate the added real estate for harvesting their crops or attacking their enemies. The final addition to Facebook’s gaming platform allows users to bookmark their favorite apps or games so they’re easily accessible from the News Feed.

The move is a counterattack to today’s launch of Google+ Games, which debuted Thursday with 16 games, including Angry Birds and Zynga Poker. It looks like the competition between the two Internet giants is getting even more intense.

Source: Mashable.com

Words With Friends [$1.99 / Free] is headed to Facebook

Words With Friends [$1.99 / Free] is headed to Facebook. Social giant Zynga Games announced the platform flip this afternoon with a delightful teaser image. Normally, I’d be a little annoyed by the lack of information, but really, what is there to say? Words with Friends is an extremely simple riff on the Scrabble formula with basic visual do-dads and mechanics that we’ve been enjoying for quite a while on iOS.
I’d imagine the reason we don’t have many details here is tied into the fact that nothing meaningful has been changed, aside from the addition of new Facebook-y social elements.

How To Play Farmville on the iPad

Anyone wants to be my neighbor in Farmville?
Just post your id below.
Feel free to add me too --> Facebook Farmville Link

LEAKED Facebook for iPad [youtube]

I have installed Facebook for ipad last night and have tested it using only my 3g network.
was able to check in quite fast but some pages or tabs like browsing photos, newsfeeds took quite a long while and then it crashed several times. Maybe that's why it's called "LEAKED"??lolx!

Anyways, I took the liberty of taking a short video ...Check it out and don't forget to share your thoughts and experience below.

Facebook 'fatigue' strikes as millions shut accounts globally

London, June 14 (ANI): Privacy threats and fatigue has led 1lakh Britons and six million users in the US to shut down their Facebook accounts, with the same pattern expected to follow in other countries too.

Facebook's growth rate has slowed for a second month in a row, ironically, when the social networking site was aiming to reach its goal of one billion active users.

Canada saw a fall of about 1.5 million users of the website, while in Russia and Norway numbers fell by more than 100,000 users.

The company is now relying on developing countries to boost its numbers.

Blogs are abuzz with speculations that the website could one day 'sputter into oblivion,' fearing the fate of its failing rival MySpace.

There is a point at which the site can no longer grow, once it has established itself in a country, according to Eric Eldon, from the website 'Inside Facebook', which obtained the figures.

"By the time Facebook reaches around 50 pc of the total population in a given country, growth generally slows to a halt," the Daily Mail quoted him as saying.

Internet psychologist Graham Jones has predicted that Facebook users would suffer the same kind of 'fatigue' that comes whenever men and women get bored with trying anything that is new.

"People get terribly excited about something new and after a while the novelty wears off," he explained. (ANI)

Facebook founder changes his status to 'in a relationship'

London, March 25 (ANI): Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has finally confirmed that he has been dating Priscilla Chan for the past seven years.

The 26-year-old has updated his Facebook status to 'in a relationship' to reflect the fact he is taken, reports the Daily Mail.

He added that the change had been "long overdue" but did not explain why he had waited so long.

Observers, however, have noted that often when couples become "in a relationship" on the social network and "engaged" status soon follows.

Zuckerberg and Chan, a Chinese-American from the Boston suburbs, started seeing each other when they were both studying at Harvard University.

Following the new update, Chan's Facebook page also revealed that the pair started their relationship on November 7, 2003, just days after Zuckerberg's infamous Facemash stunt at Harvard.

He was nearly expelled from the university after hacking into different colleges' websites and taking pictures of all the female students, placing them next to each other and asking other students to 'rate' their attractiveness. (ANI)

Delta Airlines Lets Customers Check In ; Get Flight Status via Facebook

Delta Airlines customers can now check in to flights on the company’s Facebook app.

From the Ticket Counter application, Delta customers starting today can now check SkyMiles and preview what amenities are available for various flights, too. Delta launched its its app back in August, at which time it was the first airline to allow users to book flights through the social network.

Delta also has mobile apps for iPhone, Android and BlackBerry that let users check in for flights, or get the status of a flight or gate number. However, the integration with Facebook means that it’s one less place some users will need to visit.



Using the app, which was developed by 8thBridge, boarding passes can be printed from the Facebook, just like on the website. Delta also lets users share details about their travel plans or itineraries with users over Facebook. For people who check Facebook more often than e-mail, this is a great way to share flight or trip details.

We really like the fact that you can log in to your SkyMiles account, buy tickets and print boarding passes from Facebook. But we would love to see true integration between a SkyMiles account and Facebook — in other words, an option to connect the two systems. I almost never remember my SkyMiles number, but if the two were linked, I could log in with my PIN and last name and be on my way.

Do you like the idea of checking into a flight using Facebook? Would you check in to a flight on Facebook?





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Mark Zuckerberg’s Puppy Gets a Facebook Page [PICS]

Woow! Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg loves dogs too.
He got a new puppy named Beast and created his own fan page.


Beast, a fluffy white Puli, got his own Facebook Page, which features pictures of the Facebook CEO and founder and his girlfriend, Priscilla Chan, holding and playing with the pup. So far, Beast has gotten about 2,000 “likes.” Zuckerberg and Chan are listed as the Page owners. Facebook reps could not be reached for comment on the Page’s authenticity.


Take a look at these lovely pics...the softer side of Mark..:)

http://www.facebook.com/beast.the.dog?sk=info

Facebook "Places"

Finally! Facebook "Places" is active in Singapore!




Some of my friends have been asking me on how to do this so I thought it's cool to add this little tutorial in here.

First, you need to make sure your Location services is active or been turned on.
To check, go to "Settings" in your iphone.






Click "General" then activate "Location Services to On".


You will have options which app you want to activate the service. I only chose few iphone apps like geo-location services app FourSquare and Gowalla because it drains alot of my iphone's battery.




You can now goto your Facebook profile and click "Places".






Enjoy your journey!:)


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Facebook is NOT Shutting Down March 15

Ok everyone. Don't panic. Got this news from Mashable few hours ago.



There’s a silly rumor exploding on the Internet this weekend, alleging that Facebook is shutting down on March 15 because CEO Mark Zuckerberg “wants his old life back,” and desires to “put an end to all the madness.”

We’re seeking confirmation from Facebook, but until we get the official word, let’s think about this for a minute. Would Facebook announce a shutdown just a few days after announcing a round of funding, consisting of $450 million from Goldman Sachs and $50 million from Russian investment firm Digital Sky Technologies, on a valuation of $50 billion?

The spurious report was started by a site to which we refuse to link, known for its reports of impending attacks of alien spaceships and false reports of a Michelle Obama pregnancy.

The fact that this absurd hoax spread so efficiently makes us wonder: Will people believe anything?

As soon as we hear from Facebook, we’ll update this post.


Source: Mashable.com

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